Trees, 10-20 m, the younger branches and stems appressed-pubescent. Leaves elliptic to ovate, acuminate or sometimes acute, entire, the bases obtuse, to 18 cm long and 8 cm wide, darker with appressed pubescence above, paler with slender appressed hairs below that are borne on the veins and veinlets and converge and cover the veinlets-areoles; petioles ca 0.5 cm long. Infloresceuzces cymes, panicu-late and ? open. Flowers perfect; calyx tubular-campanulate, ca 4 mm long, 5-dentate, the teeth ? unequal, unribbed, pubescent; corolla salverform, white, the tube ca 3-4 mm long, the lobes oblong, ca 1.5-1.7 mm long and ca 1.2 mm wide; stamens exserted, the filaments ca 3 mm long, fimbriolate basally, the anthers ca 1.5-1.6 mm long; ovary ovoid, the style well-developed, the lobes exserted and clavate. Fruit a drupe, ovoid, ca 1 cm long, dull green, pubescent with minute grey hairs.
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A medium sized tree. Leaves are rough to the touch. A single leaf develops from each branch fork. The flowers are very small and white. They are in dense clusters at the ends of branches. The fruit are small berries.
Found at low and medium elevations, in moist or wet areas. Usually found in the sunnier areas of the forest or as secondary vegetation on open, disturbed sites. Wet, mixed forest, thickets, or pastures at elevations up to 550 metres.
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A tropical plant. It grows in wet and moist forests.
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